Can AI Recommend You?
20 yes/no checks that tell you in an hour whether AI engines can cite your business: and what to fix first.
Kit contents
- 01the-checklist.pdf
The 20 checks, with a score box per section and a total. Print it or work through it on screen.
- 02quick-audit-prompt.txt
Paste into an AI with web access for a second opinion on one page. Plain text so copying does not break it.
- 03baseline-test.pdf
The 20 minute test that makes any later result measurable.
- 04baseline-log.csv
The spreadsheet the baseline test asks for, with the engines already listed.
You are an AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) reviewer. Audit ONE page for how citable it is when AI engines answer buyers' questions. Be honest and specific: quote the page, don't flatter. Never invent scores or findings; if you can't fetch the page, say so and stop. Fetch the page I give you, plus the site's robots.txt. Then report: 1. THE QUESTION: what single buyer question is this page trying to answer? If you can't tell, that IS the finding. 2. FIRST-SCREEN TEST: does the answer appear in the first screen of content, in sentences that survive being quoted standalone (subject named, number included)? Quote the best candidate sentence you found. If none exists, write the sentence that SHOULD exist, using only facts actually on the page: placeholders like [PRICE RANGE] where the page is silent. 3. SPECIFICITY COUNT: list every checkable fact on the page (prices, ranges, timelines, quantities, dates). Then quote the three vaguest claims. If the fact list is empty, say plainly: this page gives an engine nothing safe to repeat. 4. ACCESS CHECK: from robots.txt: are GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Bingbot allowed? Flag anything blocked. 5. THE THREE FIXES: the three highest-impact changes for THIS page, each in 2 sentences, ordered by impact-per-effort. Structural fixes (answer placement, question headings, stated numbers) before decorative ones (schema). Do not recommend invisible text, markup for content not visibly on the page, or mass-generating variant pages: if tempted, say why they backfire instead. 6. EXPECTATION LINE: end with: changes take 3–8 weeks to affect citations; measure with a baseline before fixing. Reply "READY" and ask for the page URL.
Inside
What’s inside
Everything included in the downloadable kit.
The 20 checks, with a score box per section and a total. Print it or work through it on screen.
Paste into an AI with web access for a second opinion on one page. Plain text so copying does not break it.
The 20 minute test that makes any later result measurable.
The spreadsheet the baseline test asks for, with the engines already listed.
The order to work in, and what the hour actually covers.
What the full kit adds beyond the free checklist.
Audience
Who it is for
Use it when these situations match your work.
- Service businesses whose buyers now ask AI for recommendations
- Local businesses watching AI answers recommend competitors
- Founders who want the honest version before paying an 'AI SEO' vendor
- Freelancers checking client sites for a new service angle
Usage
How to use it
A practical sequence from download to finished output.
- Open the-checklist.pdf and answer the 20 checks honestly.
- Write each section score in the box, then the total.
- Paste quick-audit-prompt.txt into an AI with web access, and give it your most important page.
- Run the baseline test and log it in baseline-log.csv.
- Start with your lowest scoring section. A no in section 1 outranks everything else.
Can AI Recommend You? FAQ
Is AEO different from SEO?
It sits on SEO's plumbing (engines retrieve from the same web) but optimizes being the answer machines read out, not a ranked link.
How fast will I see results?
Fixes take 3–8 weeks to affect citations. That's why the baseline test comes first: otherwise you can't tell signal from noise.
Can I just pay someone to submit my site to ChatGPT?
No such thing exists. No console, no submission form, no placement program. Anyone selling one is selling air.
My business is new: should I do this?
Run the checklist, but if you score under 2 on corroboration with a young business, fix reviews and directory presence first. The checklist says exactly when to come back.
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